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Sage of calligraphy
Wang Xizhi was born in Linyi of Shandong Province. He served as a general and officer in the Jin Dynasty, and was a famous calligrapher. Wang is still known as the calligraphy sage (圣人).
Wang's uncles and cousins were all famous calligraphers of their time. At seven, Wang began a systematic (系统性的) study of calligraphy under a female calligrapher, Wei Shuo. He kept copying the Wei-style calligraphy for years and learned much from the works of calligraphers.
To practise calligraphy, wherever he went, he would try to find out the styles of previous calligraphers and copy them, through collecting many calligraphic materials. There were writing brushes, ink sticks and ink stones in his study, yard and even outside the toilet. Whenever he thought of a well-structured character, he would write it down right away.
Wang wrote with smoothness and grandness (宏伟). Some people have described his calligraphy as "the dragon jumping over the heavenly gate and the tiger lying in the palace of the phoenix (凤凰)". Wang was good at many types of calligraphy but the *xingshu*-style *Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection* (《兰亭集序》) is the most popular of his works.
There is a story behind this work. In 353, Wang invited famous people to get together at a party with 41 guests at the Orchid Pavilion, where they drank. The guests were asked to write poems. The poems were collected, and Wang wrote *Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection* on his own, describing how happy these men were. Wang's talent in calligraphy was brought into full play during it.
The Song Dynasty scholar Mi Fu called *Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection* the world's best work in *xingshu* style. It's said that Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty treasured the work and had it buried in his tomb. Wang left behind calligraphic works, and *Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection* is one of them.
|The 1.
introduction
to Wang Xizhi|His life 2.
experience(s)
and family background|• being born into a family of calligraphers
• working 3.
as
a general and officer
• 4.
studying
calligraphy at 7 under Wei Shuo
• copying for years and learning from the works|
||His Calligraphy style|• practising frequently, and recording his 5.
inspirations/thoughts/ideas
at any time and place.
• praising his calligraphy as "the dragon jumping over the heavenly gate and the tiger lying in the palace to the phoenix".|
|*Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection*|The 6.
birth
of the work|• In 353, Wang hosted a party at the Orchid Pavilion. His guests drank and wrote poems before Wang 7.
himself/independently
wrote preface to the collection.
• It shows the happy scene of these men and Wang's calligraphy 8.
talent
.|
||The influence of the work|• Song Dynasty Mi Fu praised that no works can be 9.
compared
with *Preface to Orchid Pavilion* collection.
• Tang Dynasty Emperor Taizong thought it was so 10.
valuable
to him that he had it buried with him.|